2026-04-05

hello! i'm starting to think the promise of twice-monthly updates is hard to keep now that i have two jobs and university. i might change it if i feel it's becoming unsustainable. that's not to say i've not done anything noteworthy, though!

• been listening to SCRAPYARD by Quadeca a lot recently. i should listen to Ben's proper albums at some point. i've also been showing a lot of friends some stuff by the Strokes.
• this website now has a dark mode! i made it listen to prefers-color-scheme, which is unfortunate because i do like the light mode better on this website. oh well.
• i also revamped our tilde town homepage the other day, based on some doodles i made while high. i think it came out very nicely.
• i also also added some badges to this website, after not really knowing where to put them for a while. i've been enjoying making pixel art lately: on the sickos.net forum i've made a bunch of badges and some userbars as well! the town rack one was made by me and my friend ~dzwdz, based on the real-life town server rack.
• exams are Coming Up, and i am Hopeful about them, but they are eating at me a bit. thankfully after this stressful week i'm gonna be smooth sailing for pretty much the end of the year, and some nice and exciting things are on the horizon :)

2026-03-04

hello! i once again have some news.

• first and most important: names! we now have a common name for all of us, Isabela Vidart. you can check out the full list of member names here. aoife is still around (hi), and this website is still mostly mine, so nothing here should change, but i'm slowly going to transition online accounts and work etc. to the shared name.
• i moved out of the old place and into a new place. it's empty right now, but it's closer, bigger and cheaper. i'm enjoying my time here and my friends have been immensely helpful in moving <3
• my parents were supposed to come over for a bit, but that didn't end up happening. despite it being for dumb reasons, i think a silver lining is that i'd be even more stressed and anxious than i already was. oh well.

no war but class war

2026-02-11

hello! it's been a bit. i've been very busy this past month and a half and i wanted to wait until a calmer time before enumerating everything i've done!

• i'm getting better at meeting new people! late last year i was invited to Christmas dinner at a new friend's place, and i had a grand old time meeting even newer friends. last saturday i met up with some townies and we ate at a cute anarchist café where i exchanged contacts with a few nice folks there. i'm slowly getting the hang of this!
• i wrote a piece about how Israel is making me feel right now. i was told that it's nice but that it's not clear who this is for, and that's because it's not really for anyone who isn't already at the same level of exasperation about all of this as me. a lot of similar drafts have not gone anywhere but at least this one is vaguely pointed.
• i was the number one listener to Hipercandombe by La Máquina last year on last.fm, and also to Move by Hadag Nahash :)
• i passed most of my exams! i'm finally ahead of the scary university requirements, and i'll be looking into moving into a place that isn't as out of the way or as cramped as my current dorm.
• i started a small football gemlog in the last few weeks of the 2025 regular season, where i cover some of the games that made me excited. now that the season's over, i'll have to find some new obsession…

i think that's all for now. life is picking up momentum and i'm doing okay.